Confirmed Invited Speakers

The following is the list of currently confirmed speakers at CSC 2013.
(This list is regularly updated)

• Andreoni Wanda, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
  Large-scale simulations in chemistry and materials science: disclosing hidden reaction pathways on the nanoscale
• Bali Gunnar S., University of Regensburg, Germany
  The proton: where is its mass, where is its spin?
• Carlsson Mats, University of Oslo, Norway
  Physics of the Solar Chromosphere - results from recent large scale simulations
• Chatelain Philippe, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
  Vortex methods: from fundamental to industry problems, through HPC
• Cournia Zoe, Academy of Athens, Greece
  Computer modeling of biomolecules
• Daskalakis Evangelos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
  Phase transitions of large water clusters in the presence of Glyoxal, its Secondary Organic Aerosol Products and CO2
• Filipe Hugo, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  Following amphiphilic molecules on their way through lipid membranes
• Gropp William, University of Illinois, USA
  Challenges for Multiphysics Simulations at Extreme Scale
• Hamad Bothina, Jordan University, Jordan
  Catalytic oxidation of carbon and nitrogen monoxides on transition metal surfaces: Ab initio calculations
• Johnson Chris, Edinburgh University, UK
  PRACE DECI (Distributed European Computing Initiative) Overview
• Kalisperis Loukas N., Penn State University, USA
  Designing Visualization
• Kalus Rene, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
  Non-adiabatic molecular dynamics. A case study on rare-gas cluster cations
• Hejazialhosseini Babak , ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  Computational Science for Scientific Discovery and Predictive Modelling
• Koutsou Giannis, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
  Hadron Structure in latttice QCD
• Kroes Geert-Jan, Leiden University, The Netherlands
  Towards chemical accuracy for methane reacting on metal surfaces
• Kronik Leeor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  Fundamental and optical gaps from density functional theory
• Kunz Martin, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  The Universe in a box: Simulations of cosmic strings
• Lapenta Giovanni, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
  Energy lifecycle in space and astrophysics: a massively parallel HPC approach from petascale to exascale
• Lindhal Erik, Stokholm University/KTH, Sweden
  Petascale & exascale molecular simulation: Evolutions & revolutions
• Lippert Thomas, Julich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
  Exascale in Europe
• Papadopoulos Manthos, The National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece
  Design of novel photonic materials
• Reviere Catherine, PRACE, Belgium
  PRACE: A strategic research infrastructure to foster European Competitiveness
• Schröder Wolfgang, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  Human Computational Fluid Dynamics: Analysis of Nose Flow
• Schuette Christof, Free University of Berlin, Germany
  Computational Biology
• Seidel Edward, NCSA, University of Illinois, USA
  How Paradigm Shifts in Research Drive Integrated Approaches to Computing and Data Environments
• Towns John, NCSA, University of Illinois, USA
  Exascale in US
• Urbach Carsten, University of Bonn, Germany
  Lessons from tuning lattice QCD algorithms on modern supercomputers
• Varghese Aniyan , European Commission, Belgium
  High Performance Computing in Horizon 2020
• Vidale Pier Luigi, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, UK
  Weather and Climate modelling at the Petascale: achievements and perspectives
• White Simon, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysiscs, Germany
  Large-scale simulation of the formation and evolution of the galaxy population
• Wernli Heini, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  Simulations of the climate system: process understanding and future predictions

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